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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[parodeity]

Bein' the other person.

[windeity]

...explain that to me. Like. You don't want to be that person?

[parodeity]

John, I'm me. Have been for a while now. "Want " or "don't want" - the shit I would change has never been anythin' that could be changed and who cares about it?

[windeity]

[...]

Yeah. I get it. [He downs the rest of his coffee anyway.] Uh. I know I kind of started it but can I tap out on this stuff for today? For a little while.

[parodeity]

It's chill to tap out on it permanently - don't worry about it. We have fact cards about how to care for those. I can grab them for you before you go.

[windeity]

Cool, I do not want to tap out permanently though. But thanks. [He'll slide off of the counter then.]

I'll take them. I think I have time to drop these off at the dorm before my lab. When are you off tonight?

[parodeity]

Another two hours. I'll be back before you're out of class, probably?

[windeity]

Okay, sweet. [There's another easygoing grin then.] I found my Back to the Future trilogy under my bed while I was looking for my glasses this morning and we're watching the first one when I get back. Deal?

[parodeity]

That is a super cliche thing to ask me to watch but luckily I adore Marty McFly, so I'm down. [ he's been going through a plastic box and pulls out two information cards on those plants to hand over. ] ...some concern about you thinking your glasses would be under your bed, also?

[windeity]

Awesome. [He snaps up the cards and pockets them, picking up the plants in one hand.] And no, probably not. Sometimes they get knocked off of my desk, it's no big deal. You'll get used to it.

[parodeity]

Maybe? I've never really seen you without 'em that long, so you breaking or losing them would be weird...

[windeity]

I have never broken or lost them, surprisingly. Temporarily lost, sure, but I kind of like being able to see. So I guess other me never lost them either? Good to know.

[parodeity]

[ a brief shrug. ]

Not that I know of...? But chronologically speakin' he could've done earlier.

[windeity]

Can I ask you one more question?

[parodeity]

Shoot.

[windeity]

How long did you and I know each other back then? When did we actually meet?

[parodeity]

The first time we ever spoke we must've been around ten or so?

[ he's guesstimating and also not answering "when did we first meet" because lab babies why ]

[windeity]

[He pauses again.]

...we knew each other for a really long time then. Like before everything even started. I had no idea.

[parodeity]

Before everything...? [ he can't tell if john means the game or not. ]

[windeity]

Before everything that happened at the end of the world. My memories all seem to be from around the same age, but there has to be more. We were going somewhere so...we were friends for a long time after everything happened, too. Right?

[parodeity]

Latest I remember is twenty-one.

[windeity]

You--that's eleven years. [Why does he sound so genuinely stunned by that?] And at twenty-one we were still friends?

[parodeity]

What did you actually expect me to say? [ he's...amused. because what the fuck. why does john think dave misses the other three? ] I can't picture ever stoppin'.

[windeity]

This is just very new to me, okay? [Dave can be amused, John can continue to be baffled. However:] I think stopping is not really an option though.

[Not really. Not when he wants to keep remembering things and now that he has that knowledge in his hands.]

[parodeity]

I - [ he cuts himself off with a laugh, pauses, and then shrugs. ]

Honestly, don't sweat it. Some of the shit that matters most you never even registered before, I don't think. I think that's kind of how things go with people? The things you say or do that hit them hardest, you don't always think about it when you're doin' it, because it's not a pivot point for you, you know?